2007 · comedy
Norbit
Directed by Brian Robbins1h 42m2007
A mild-mannered guy who is engaged to a monstrous woman meets the woman of his dreams, and schemes to find a way to be with her.
Our read: Norbit (2007) reads as a warm, kinetic, inventive comedy entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, gentle comedy, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- warm
- brisk
- gentle
- inventive
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How Norbit feels to watch.
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What watching it is actually like.
“You want broad Eddie Murphy disguise comedy and won't mind mean-spirited body jokes.”
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